Charles W. Clinton

Charles William Clinton (1838 to 1910) was an American architect based in New York City. He was born and raised in the city and trained in the office of Richard Upjohn, leaving in 1858 to open a private practice of his own. For most of the next three and a half decades he worked under his own name, and in the 1870s he was twice credited alongside James W. Pirsson as a collaborator. From 1894 until his death he was a partner in the firm of Clinton and Russell. His most prominent solo commission is the privately funded and unusually ornate Seventh Regiment Armory on Park Avenue, dated 1880, with interior work by Louis Comfort Tiffany, Stanford White, Alexander Roux, Francis Davis Millet and the Herter Brothers; Clinton himself belonged to the regiment's Company K. His other work included the Manhattan Apartments on Second Avenue, city quarters for the New York Athletic Club and a cluster of four early skyscrapers on Wall Street. He died at his home in New York City on December 1, 1910.